omnia mutantur, nihil interit (15.165)
metamorphoses (Greek/Latin for transformations) is a lengthy narrative poem (is it an epic poemepic poem
an epic poem is a narrative poem of great length about extraordinary or larger-than-life characters. ezra pound said it was a poem including history. In a preface to paradise lost, c.s. lew...?) written in Latin by the Roman poet ovidovid
publius ovidius naso (43 BC - 17/18 ad) was a roman poet. his first work was amores, three books of love poems. his magnum opus is metamorphoses. He was exiled by Augustus. He was also clearly .... It covers greek mythmyth
myth is the visionary literature of the spirit, stories of a symbolic past, neither science nor metaphor. Some myths are etiological, serving as an explanation of some kind. The..., beginning with a creation myth. The thematic connection is change and chaoschaos
before the seas and land had been created,
before the sky that covers everything,
nature displayed a single aspect only
throughout the cosmos; chaos was its name,
a shapeless, unwrought mass of .... In the poem, the gods are just as fickle and shifty as humans.
I like Charles Martin's translation and the Latin text at Perseus.